Episode Details

Get your bingo cards at the ready, because Jonah is joined by Ryan Bourne—a policy scholar at the Cato Institute and author of The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy—for a decisively wonky Remnant on all things prices. What are prices? Why doesn’t price fixing work? And what's up with the libertarians?

Show Notes:

—Ryan's new book The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy

—Ryan’s profile at Cato

—Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19

—Suicide of the West

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices